Attachment for car-steps.



UNITED aSTATES PATENT OFFICE'.

JAMES H. FASSETT, OF NASHUA, AND JOHN E. WARREN, OF GrREENFIELD,4

NEW HAMPSHIRE, ASSIGNORS OF ONE-HALF TO WILLIAM H. OHEEVER, OF NASHUA, NEW HAMPSHIRE.

ATTACHMENT FOR CAR-STEPS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 708,131, dated September 2, 1902.

Application led January 25,1902. Serial No. 91.172. (No model.) i

y T all wwm it maywW/b: is kept retracted, as shown in Fig. 3. When Be it known that we, JAMES H. FASSETT, of the train stops at a station, the trainman Nashua, and JOHN E. WARREN, of Greenfield, throws the lever Z outwardly into the position in the county of Hillsboro and State of New shown in Fig. 2 and through the rack and 5 Hampshire, citizens of the United States, have pinion e rotates the shaft d and crank-arm f, 5o invented a new and useful Improvement in thus moving the Yarms h in the guides j and Attachments for Car-Steps, of which the followering the step fr'. The passenger is therelowing is a specification, reference being had by enabled to reach the fixed steps b easily to accompanying drawings. and without undue eifort. When the train is 1o Our invention relates to an improvement in ready to proceed, the trainman throws the le- 55 steps for cars and similar vehicles, and has ver Z into the position shown in Fig. 3, therefor its object to provide an eXtraV step, which by retracting the step i, as shown. Y The bolt may be retracted at will by the trainman. 0 of the latch m under the inuenceof the Heretofore, so far as kn'own to us, it has spring n is forced into the innermost notch l5 been the common usage for trainmen to carry 19 in the strap q, and thus serves tohold the 6o a cricket or portable step by which the passtep t' in its retractedposition. senger was assisted to the first step of the car. What we claim is It is the object of our invention to do away The combination of a car-body; a iight of with this contrivance and to provide a step fixed steps secured thereto; a shaftjournaled zo and mechanism by which it may be let down Aon said iiight of steps; a crank-arm fast on 65 and folded up when desired. the inner end of said shaft; ayoke pivotally In the drawings illustrating the principle secured to said crank-arm; guide-supports of our invention and the best mode in which for said yoke; a step secured to said yoke; a We have contemplated applying that principinion fast on the outer end of said shaft;` a ple, Figure l is a front elevation showing the lever pivotally securedto said car-body and 7o retractable step lowered. Fig. 2isasectional formed on'its lower end with a segmental View on line A A of Fig. 1, and Fig. 3 is a secrack in mesh with said pinion, whereby motional view showing the step retracted. tion is communicated to said shaft -to raise a is the body of the car, to which are seand lower said yoke with its attached step; a 3o cured the steps b in any suitable manner. strap secured to said car-body and formed 75 Journaled in the bearings c is the shaft d, with notches; a spring-controlled latch defast on the outer end of which is the pinion vice mounted on the upper end of said lever e, and fast upon the inner end of which is the for engaging in the notches in said strap, crank-arm f. Pivotally secured to the crankwhereby said yoke is held in the desired poarm f is a yoke g, integral with which are the sition. 8o arms h, secured to which is the step i. The In testimony whereof we hereunto set our arms h are Vslidably. supported in Vguides j. hands, inv theY presence of two witnesses', this Meshin g with the pinion e is a segmental rack 17th day of January, A. D. 1902, atPeterboro, la, cast upon thelower end of leverl, upon the in the county of Hillsboro and State of New 4o upper end of which is supported a-latch m, Hampshire.

the spring n of which tends to force the bolt JAMES H. FASSETT. o into the notches p in the strap q to hold the JOHN E. WARREN. step t' in its adjusted position. Witnesses:

The operation will now be readily under- EZRA M. SMITH,

stood. When the train is in'motion, the step OHAS. W. HOLT. 

